North Shore University Hospital (NSUH) has been recognized as a 2022 Patient Safety Excellence Award recipient by Healthgrades, placing it among the top 10 percent of all short-term acute care hospitals evaluated nationwide.
This is the fourth consecutive year that NSUH has been a recipient of the Patient Safety Excellence Award (2019-2022) by Healthgrades, the leading marketplace connecting patients and providers. The latest honor reinforces the hospital’s status as a quality leader.
NSUH is a Magnet-recognized hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), which spotlights excellence in nursing. Seven critical care units at the hospital have earned the Beacon Award for Excellence by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, which highlights evidence-based practices to improve patient and family outcomes.
“Our No. 1 priority is patient care and that’s reflected in Healthgrades’ recognition of the patient safety record at North Shore University Hospital,” said Jon Sendach, NSUH’s executive director. “We perform incredibly complex procedures here and provide a coordination of care as part of an integrated health system – and have done so at the highest level in spite of a pandemic.”
North Shore University Hospital, a member of Northwell Health, is a Level I trauma center and teaching hospital. It is home to the Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital, the Katz Women’s Hospital, neurosurgery, multi-organ transplant services and one of the busiest emergency departments in the New York Metropolitan area.
During the study period (2018-2020), 170,231 potentially preventable patient safety events occurred among Medicare patients at hospitals in the United States.* Healthgrades found that four patient safety indicators accounted for 74 percent of all patient safety events: Hip fracture due to an in-hospital fall, collapsed lung resulting from a procedure/surgery, pressure or bed sores acquired in-hospital, and catheter-related bloodstream infections acquired in-hospital.
Healthgrades also found that patients treated in hospitals receiving the Healthgrades 2022 Patient Safety Excellence Award were, on average:
• 55.8 percent less likely to experience an in-hospital fall resulting in hip fracture, than patients treated at non-recipient hospitals*
• 52.6 percent less likely to experience a collapsed lung resulting from a procedure or surgery in or around the chest, than patients treated at non-recipient hospitals*
• 66.2 percent less likely to experience pressure sores or bed sores acquired in the hospital, than patients treated at non-recipient hospitals*
• 65.8 percent less likely to experience catheter-related bloodstream infections acquired in the hospital, than patients treated at nonrecipient hospitals*
“North Shore University Hospital is a Beacon and Magnet hospital because our team members take patient safety and patient outcomes personally,” said David Hirschwerk, MD, medical director at NSUH. “The Healthgrades 2022 Patient Safety Excellence Award is yet another validation of the vigilance and care being provided each day by our outstanding team.”
For more information on how Healthgrades measures hospital quality and access the complete methodology, go to: https://www.healthgrades.com/quality/ratings-awards/method/healthgrades-patient-safety-methodology.
*Statistics are calculated from Healthgrades Patient Safety Ratings and Excellence Award methodology, which is based primarily on AHRQ technical specifications (Version 2021.0.1) for MedPAR data years 2018 through 2020 and represent three-year estimates for Medicare patients only.
